9780252094323

9780252037207 (cloth)

9780252078712 (pbk.)

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

Project MUSE - UPCC 2013 Complete.

Project MUSE - UPCC 2013 Global Cultural Studies.

Music in American life

From old world to new shores / Helena Simonett

Accordion jokes : a folklorist's view / Richard March

From chanky-chank to Yankee chanks : the Cajun accordion as identity symbol / Mark DeWitt

Garde ici et garde lá-bas : Creole accordion in Louisiana / Jared Snyder

"Tejano and proud" : the accordion traditions of South Texas and the border region / Cathy Ragland

Preserving territory : the changing language of the accordion in Tohono O'odham waila music / Janet Sturman

Accordions and working-class culture along Lake Superior's South Shore / James P. Leary

Play me a tarantella, a polka, or jazz : Italian Americans and the currency of piano accordion music / Christine Zinni

The klezmer accordion : an outsider among outsiders / Joshua Horowitz

Beyond Vallenato : the accordion traditions in Colombia / Egberto Bermúdez

"A hellish instrument" : the story of the tango bandoneón / Mara Susana Azzi

No ma' se oye el fuinfuán : the noisy accordion in the Dominican Republic / Sydney Hutchinson

Between the folds of Luiz Gonzaga's sanfona : forre music in Brazil / Megwen Loveless

The accordion in new scores : paradigms of authorship and identity in William Schimmel's musical "realities" / Marion Jacobson.

Accordion music > United States > Social aspects.

Accordion > United States > History.

Accordionists > United States.

Immigrants > United States > Music > History and criticism.

Project Muse.